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Wad VanDerTurf
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Yes, he did. I still remember the time he went off in the comments at someone for daring to criticize the show at all. "Lena Dunham is making the kind of show she wants to make, so SHUT UP!" is not the sort of thing any actual professional television critic should ever say.

I went with Medea for "meddle." It's probably not an accurate connection, but I got it right, so who cares?

Well, the Fairness Doctrine was eliminated under Reagan, so something like Fox News would have arguably been impossible without the Reagan Revolution.

Man, I wish I could remember where I read it, because I saw a comparison that on the surface seems bizarre but totally makes sense to me: Girls to Entourage, in that they both satisfy a certain lifestyle-porn requirement for their viewers. The only difference is, it's not lifestyle porn for the wannabe-baller bro GTL

lmao at everything about this and you

I'm not crying over this! It's just dusty in here!

Nuge is definitely into chicks, if by "chicks" you mean "underage girls."

David Lee Roth is a much more intelligent and savvy guy than he gets credit for. I don't see any reason to disbelieve him. This in particular makes complete sense:

Ser Hyram Syrup looked up from the pit he had fallen into, knowing it was hopeless now. Above, he saw Ser Mitch Hedwaffle, cousin to House Waffle, approach, bow drawn, walking slowly toward him. The last thing he heard started with Ser Mitch's words:

This guy. This guy is the smuggest.

The "brown M&Ms" story is Van Halen. David Lee Roth wrote in his autobiography that the reason they did it was to make sure the venue read the contract in detail and carried it out to the letter, for safety's sake. I guess you can believe it or not at your own discretion.

So he was right about you guys caring about clickbait first?

Oh, it's all in good fun. I'm sure it's a good show. I just had a funny time picturing this staff meeting, but that could have been because it was 3 AM.

I overslept. It's cold out. Fortunately, I don't have anywhere to be or much to accomplish besides a piece of ghostwriting. I'm waiting to hear back on one of my creative projects, or alternately come up with an idea for a new one in the meantime.

"(There’s a reason you’ve seen so much Venture Bros. cosplay.)"

It used to be on Netflix and Amazon Prime and now it's not on either. Sucks.

R&S came at the perfect time for me; just old enough to be bored of children's cartoons and with a well-established taste for the weird. One of my favorites and it still holds up. I was a little too old for Rocko but it has some surprisingly good / sharp jokes.

D was pretty tough (Daria, Dr. Katz, Duckman, others) but, man, R might pass it. I totally forgot about R&M, which I am a huge fan of, because I was also such a huge fan of R&S and R&B.

Even Jim Anchower knows that's fucked up.

I don't understand how they decided "runners-up." Animaniacs, Bob's Burgers, Duckman, Dr. Katz, and Futurama don't qualify, but pretty much anything aired on Cartoon Network / Adult Swim in the last 15 years did. Also, something I would describe as "a cartoon from Ignatiy's childhood that clearly nobody on staff had